The Weekend Intelligence: Should I own a gun?
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The Economist
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
By the end of this podcast Economist correspondent Tamara Gilkes Borr might own a gun. Recently, Tamara fired a gun for the first time and was shocked by how it made her feel. That moment started her on a personal odyssey to meet other Black gun owners and find out why, in contemporary America, she might want - or need - a gun.
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| 1:26.0 | I grew up with guns. |
| 1:28.0 | Cap guns when I was little, pellet guns when I was a bit bigger. |
| 1:32.0 | A couple miles from where I grew up there's a shooting |
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